You cannot make this stuff up. The Victoria Climbie enquiry has been told that the Met was…you guessed it..institutionally racist in its in its handling of the investigation into the death of the child. As usual, the accusation is unaccompanied by either arguments or evidence, but that is not the point. Like rape, the accusation is sufficient if your intention is just to damage the reputation of the accused.
Leroy Logan, chairman of the London Black Police Association, who must have been wondering what the hell he was doing at the enquiry, said that senior officers blamed the death on a black woman police constable without examining the conduct of white colleagues who were no less culpable. He offered no evidence for his claims.
Logan did not discuss the fact that PC Karen Jones was the member of the Child Protection Squad assigned to the Climbie case when the child died, was described as being guilty of “blinding incompetence” during the murder trial and was demonstrably incompetent in her handling of the case. Instead Logan played his race ace early: “She has had to face the double jeopardy of institutional racism and institutional sexism like other black female officers. This may account for the lack of black women progressing up the ranks.”
There you have it folks. The enquiry is actually into the paucity of black female officers not the death of a little black girl at the hands of two black torturers who gruesome abuses were not detected by a black policewoman or a black social worker who’s jobs were to do just that.
The kernel of the racism accusation seems to be that PC Jones is black and apparently it is not PC for detective to investigate the main culprit if the main culprit is black. She was treated disproportionately to other, white, colleagues.
Well well. The case officer in charge came in for more flack than those who dealt with the child a year before. The horror of the case prompted a full public enquiry yet the Met is accused of being institutionally racist for thoroughly investigating this woman.
The Guardian carries the story (of course)
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